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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:09 PM
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Andrew Stern set to resign as head of major union, SEIU official says.
Source: wapo

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid irritating union officials.

Stern, 59, took the helm of SEIU in 1996, succeeding his mentor John Sweeney after he left to assume the presidency of the AFL-CIO federation.

But in 2005, Stern sent shock waves through the labor movement when he took SEIU out of the AFL-CIO and created a rival federation with several other breakaway unions, including the Teamsters. He argued that the AFL-CIO had become too complacent and not aggressive enough about organizing new workers to stem its membership decline.

Read more: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/04/stern-set-to-resign-as-head-of.html?hpid=topnews
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Proletariatprincess Donating Member (527 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-12-10 11:41 PM
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1. He surely is not retiring at age 59....
I wonder what the hell he is up to? Let's just hope it is good for the American Labor Movement and not some self serving endeavor.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 12:04 AM
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2. Are you familiar with him?
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Citizen Worker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 12:31 AM
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3. Good news for the House of Labor
Andy Stern drove a wedge into the House Of Labor when he took five Unions out of the AFL/CIO and created the Change To Win coalition. Nothing much changed and very little was won. In fact, when elements of SEIU began to show democratic rank and file impulses Stern attempted to crush these impulses while cozying up to the corporate bosses trying to convince them that they would be better off dealing with a more compliant SEIU then they would a more militant and rank and file centered Union.

For more on the machinations of Andy Stern see: www.seiuvoice.org
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 12:36 AM
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4. Web site unavailable.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:39 AM
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5. Good. He's been little more than bad news.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:43 AM
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6. xplain, please
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:59 AM
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8. He put a dangerous split in the labor movement and was an ineffective leader for his new federation.
Edited on Tue Apr-13-10 10:00 AM by Brickbat
Change to Win got wrapped up in politicking and spending lots of money and abandoned its organizing push. It did much more harm than good -- and as far as bringing in the carpenters and Teamsters and talking about a reduction in corruption and high-living officials, well, as the kids say, LMAO.
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 09:54 AM
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7. Good. This guy has only been in the back pocket of managers everywhere.
Line workers have suffered more in his "unions" than in others.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:04 AM
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9. 'his unions?'
Service employees? Could you explain/discuss?
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arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:15 PM
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13. I would say SEIU represented workers have made more concessions...
on pay and benefits than workers in pretty much any other national unions, with the exception of the auto workers.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:06 AM
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10. Any word on where he's going? I'm assuming Obama has something ready for him.
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musiclawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 11:58 AM
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11. SEIU engages in thuggish practices during unit modifications
I mean mistreatment of its own people who want to break away to rival unions. This very common in CA and such practices are so common that the tactics had to have the blessing of top officials. His departure is not a bad thing.
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LetsgoWings13 Donating Member (144 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 12:05 PM
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12. that upsets me!
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:22 PM
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14.  Hah. Maybe this has something to do with the NC SIEU supporting a new political party
that would be a progressive alternative to the Democratic Party. Good riddance to bad rubbish with Stern. He was just a pol faking it as a union leader. He will probably end up a lobbyist of some kind.
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laughingliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-13-10 01:57 PM
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15. I confess limited knowledge of SEIU but I know several groups of hospital nurses
who organized under them eventually ditched them. One hospital up here the nurses voted to unionize and it took them 3 years to get a contract and then it wasn't a good one.
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